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Effects of Supplemental Chromium Propionate on Serum Lipids, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Heat-Stressed Broilers

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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of chromium from chromium propionate (CrPro) on serum lipids, carcass traits, and breast meat quality in heat-stressed birds. A total of 210 1-day-old male broilers were randomly allotted by initial body weight (BW) into 5 treatments with 7 replicates with 6 birds per replicate pen for 42 days. The treatments included a basal corn-soybean meal diet and basal diet supplemented with 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, or 1.6 mg Cr/kg diet. Birds had ad libitum access to feed and distilled-deionized water at normal conditions for 1–3 weeks with little or no stress, and then birds were housed under heat stress conditions with 35 ± 2 °C ambient temperature for 4–6 weeks. Results showed that serum triglyceride (TG) (P = 0.0006) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC) (P = 0.0038) concentrations were decreased linearly as Cr dose increased. Compared with other groups, birds receiving 0.8 or 1.6 mg Cr/kg had lower TG (P = 0.0015). Compared to control birds, birds fed diets with 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, or 1.6 mg Cr/kg supplementation had lower LDLC (P = 0.0006). However, the total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC) concentrations in serum were not affected by treatment (P > 0.05). No difference was observed in BW, the relative weights of breast muscle, thigh muscle and abdominal fat (P > 0.05), and breast meat quality (Ph15min, Ph24h, L*, a*, b*, cooking loss, shear force) among the treatments (P > 0.05). Results from this study indicated that CrPro supplementation could be beneficial to serum lipids metabolism of heat-stressed broiler chickens by decreasing TG and LDLC contents, but had no impacts on meat quality and carcass traits of the heat-stressed broilers.

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    Fang Xiao, Degulina Ao, Bo Zhou & Yanling Huang

  2. Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7621, USA

    Jerry W Spears & Xi Lin

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All experimental procedures including the care, handling, and sampling of the birds were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of Southwest University for Nationalities.

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This study was funded by the International Cooperative Project of Sichuan Province (grant number 2015HH0018).

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Xiao, F., Ao, D., Zhou, B. et al. Effects of Supplemental Chromium Propionate on Serum Lipids, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality of Heat-Stressed Broilers. Biol Trace Elem Res 176, 401–406 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12011-016-0852-7

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